Felicia A. Henry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. Her research interests include race, ethnicity, gender, class, carceral studies, arts-based activism, critical criminology, disasters and the environment, and social vulnerability. Her dissertation, “Invisible and Hypervisible: The Impact of the Carceral State on Black Women’s Disaster Experience," uses COVID-19 as the context to explore the constraints of criminal legal involvement for Black women under community supervision. Felicia's work also broadly studies the intersection of disasters and criminal legal involvement to position criminal legal system involvement as a contributor to social vulnerability and promote policies for criminal legal system actors to improve outcomes for justice-involved populations during disasters.

She is a Bill Anderson Fund Fellow and recipient of the Unidel Award in Sociology & Criminal Justice and the University Unidel Distinguished Graduate Scholar Award. She also received the 2021 Natural Hazards Center Graduate Student Paper award. Her work has been funded by the University of Delaware and published in criminology, psychology, and environment journals, such as Critical Criminology, Corrections: Policy, Practice, and Research, Environmental Justice, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Journal of Community Psychology. She has also published on public-facing platforms such as WHYY and Medium. Felicia is also the Founder of Behind the Walls, Between the Lines (BTWBTL), a movement to deepen the awareness of the legacy of racial inequity in America, particularly within the carceral control, and inspire activism aimed at its dismantlement.

A Licensed Social Worker (LMSW), Felicia received her Master of Social Work degree from the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.